Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

It was not picked up by the communications unit. It was not listed as one of its stories of the day, even though it had a long list of stories that day. It was in the Irish Examiner and the Belfast Telegraph. That was seen by the Department but, as we know now from the reports that the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, has, the Department did not believe at that stage that that was a major story. It did not believe, even on 7 August, that it would be a major story.

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